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so basically my computer behind me now has a really bizarre problem and all of this happened right before the GTX 690 testing so unfortunately for the GTX 690 s they may have got a pretty unfair verdict and some of those blue screens or even most of those blue screens could have been because of this motherboard so what happened right before I installed the GTX 690 s was I was installing files across to the NASS the tech yes NASA and all the sudden my mouse just blew out and I thought my mouse had died but then on the screen I had noticed the file transfer had just completely dropped out as well and the lights were still on for the Nick as well so I was just really confused at this stage and then once I got the mouse into another USB port I had found that the two sided drives connected to the as media silo controller they had blown out as well so one positive thing that's going to come out of this video is that in future motherboard reviews I'm now going to look at power delivery to individual ports and components and see how that motherboard is structured not only when it comes to overclocking and audio and all that other stuff but also power delivery to individual components so that's going to be the positive thing that's coming out of this video but we've now got this motherboard working and how we got it working is we're just running off the front two USB ports at the moment disabled all the next disabled all the rear USB ports and disabled that Asmodeus SATA controller and it's stable now and I know what some people would probably think they probably think it was the overclock and know we've got this thing running at 5 gigahertz stable but just with the front 2 USB ports so it's a pretty crazy problem but gigabyte did send over their XIII 70 Horus board and they didn't want me to take a look at it and they did want me to civically overclocked it so we're gonna see if we can get my 8700 K higher than the stable 5 because overclock I previously had and also on that note while we wait for the replacement for the fatality board to come in from asrock I'm gonna take you guys through a tour on this C 370 board and see if it is any good see if it's better than the previous C 370 that they had with half the phases so let's get on with this okay so over there we've got that video still rendering and over here we have the front USB hub which is going to the rear of the computer and now that is powering my mouse and keyboard so that's a pretty bizarre setup we've got and then we've got the spare port here if I need to connect a memory card or any other device inside this case at the moment though we have the 1070 TI hall-of-fame and that's running really well I love that graphics card so quiet we've got the elgato capture card above that but below that what I've done is I've installed a 10 gig NIC this is the Intel two-port NIC I forgot the name of it that it's a really decent one of course I got it on sale for a real good bargain it was just a tray icon and now one thing about tray icons - guys tray just means that there's no box so you just get the product in whatever it is and it won't have any retail packaging so tray can usually be cheaper and it can usually be a lot cheaper especially if that seller is just wholesaling and out and wants to get rid of it so what we're going to do now is going to take all these components out and then put this motherboard in and then see how it will fare under the Tek yes hammer so now we're stress testing the CPU we're over ten minutes into the test and it's doing absolutely fine as five gigabytes at one point four four volt now I've tried booting up into Windows at five point one and although it will boot in as soon as I start a stress test it just blue screens out so this CPU I've got is just not capable at five point one Giga now I would take it higher except I believe the warping point or the melting point of these CPUs is over one point four five volt I believe that's like the danger zone anything over that you risk damaging your CPU permanently and since we're already getting it like ninety degrees here we are reaching a pretty dangerous point so we're at 25 degrees ambience so the ambient temperatures are mediocre at best but good news for the motherboard is that the temperatures on the motherboard BRM are actually really good so that we're getting up to around about 65 degrees at the core of the base there on the BRM and the heat sinks like in the mid 50's so gigabyte have definitely done a good job on this Oris z3 70 gaming 2.0 so they have said that they've implemented a bit of erm and it's definitely showing in these tests so I do like it when a company takes feedback and then they better that product and focus on what the customer actually wants and I'll just quickly stop this test and turn these fans down because they are PWM controlled and they are making a bit of noise right much better so now I got done running the SSD test and I put it through a couple of tests and the height of 64 SSD tests was straight temperatures and we can see that the top slot with the heatsink on it that was doing about 11 degrees better than the bottom SSD so that's some really good news it's actually a heat shield that works properly if you guys have seen the msi boards in the past they've just had this marketing thing and it's actually made temperatures worse this heatsink does a good job of cooling down the SSD and it's glad to see that they're following suit like a zoo so Zeus was doing a heat shield on at least the z3 17 bowls of water I tested recently and that dropped the nvme SSD champs down substantially so they are following suit they are getting it right and they have got it right on this motherboard at leasts so now we're just finishing up the last component of this motherboard and this is the onboard audio and now the frequency response curve is really good it's flat after 20 Hertz practically throughout the whole range there before 20 Hertz you've got a point 2 decibel drop-off until 10 Hertz and then before 10 Hertz you've got about a 2 decibel drop-off so really good onboard audio except the crosstalk is a real funny thing this is how gigabyte have fixed the problem that practically all the other z3 70 motherboards have and I'll put the link up here if you want to see that comparison but above 90 volume practically all these motherboards had a problem where the crosstalk was either leaking from the left channel to the right channel or vice versa and this time around gigabyte have decided they could fix the problem by just lowering the volume so we've got the volume set to 100 but the problem is it's at least 6 decibels lower in its terms of its max levels than all those other z3 70 motherboards are so gigabyte interesting fix but I mean technically it's fixed but it's a quick anyway the mic import it's going to be really reliable if you use it at that sweet spot of plus 20 DB and 50 volume level going up to a hundred at 20 DB will introduce a bit of noise of course plus 30 DB at 100 you can just see the noise just creeping and I'll let you guys have a quick listen though anyway guys closing up now my new editing rig has at least a temporary fix and it's got the Auris motherboard in there I'm sure as rock I'm gonna like that but hey they got the mother would sit in here and it didn't blow out a whole power line and something else crazy didn't happen but the ultra gaming tunes not a bad motherboard they've really worked on this board to make it solid you saw those SSD temperatures dropping in the top slot I'd like to maybe see that heatsink go to the bottom slot as well if there was one thing I could critique about this motherboard would be the BIOS itself it is very detailed that's a great thing but all the options for overclocking your CPU they're like all in different tabs I'd like to see them kind of put all of them in the same tab like the power limits and also load line calibration and stuff like that if they could put that in the same tab that would be awesome but as it stands this motherboard is really solid I think comes in around 165 dollars at least that's the rev one I'm hoping the rev 2 is the same price and of course you've got that RGB bling-bling you can change that in the bias as well so you don't have to install the software and it actually looks really nice the red blinking off the white on the hall-of-fame card I really like that so it's giving me ideas to maybe make a full white build with red are LED lights I think that looked really cool anyway ideas ideas lastly though it's getting pretty late here so I'm gonna go to bed very soon but tomorrow gotta fly up to Thailand and I will be doing the use parts hunt there this month and also I'm going there for an event I can't say which event it is but if you guys have been reading up on rumors then you'll probably know what it is already look forward to giving you some awesome coverage over there I'll be there for two days but if you enjoyed this video and be sure to hit that like button if you've got any comments about the motherboard if you want to see something in Thailand or anything else drop a comment I love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tape with your very serene peace out for now bye so good run Dunning now run Dunning right there done running but anyway the motherboard itself